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Latest NewsenAntonov, Maker of World’s Biggest Plane, Shows Business Risks Of Ukraine-Russia Crisishttp://www.ibtimes.com/antonov-maker-worlds-biggest-plane-shows-business-risks-ukraine-russia-crisis-1593955
KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine is a country on the verge of bankruptcy, struggling to contain an uprising and to remain united. It’s also an aviation superpower in its own right, punching way above its size -- thanks to its Antonov flying giants. In a world where aviation records are usually in the hands of the Americans, or sometimes the Russians, Ukraine has managed to become the undisputed leader in cargo planes.http://www.ibtimes.com/antonov-maker-worlds-biggest-plane-shows-business-risks-ukraine-russia-crisis-1593955Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:43:54 -0400(Wild)Life In A Nuclear Wasteland: 28 Years After the Chernobyl Disasterhttp://www.ibtimes.com/wildlife-nuclear-wasteland-28-years-after-chernobyl-disaster-1576660
CHERNOBYL, Ukraine -- Almost three decades after the worst nuclear disaster in history unfolded here, this largely vacated region has another dubious distinction: it’s the world's first radioactive wildlife preserve. Before collapsing in the Maidan revolt that shook Ukraine earlier this year, the government of then-president Viktor Yanukovich had even considered naming Chernobyl a biosphere reserve.http://www.ibtimes.com/wildlife-nuclear-wasteland-28-years-after-chernobyl-disaster-1576660Sat, 26 Apr 2014 10:03:44 -0400Eastern Ukraine Rebels, Arms In Hand, Say They Will Resist To The Endhttp://www.ibtimes.com/eastern-ukraine-rebels-arms-hand-say-they-will-resist-end-1573751
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine -- Some 2,000 miles to the west in Geneva, the diplomats had decided that the conflict here was supposed to end. The pro-Russian separatists who had captured government buildings here and across eastern Ukraine would have to give them up and go back to whatever they had been doing before.http://www.ibtimes.com/eastern-ukraine-rebels-arms-hand-say-they-will-resist-end-1573751Fri, 18 Apr 2014 18:07:45 -0400Ukrainian Soldiers To Russia: If We Fight A Guerrilla War, We Winhttp://www.ibtimes.com/ukrainian-soldiers-russia-if-we-fight-guerrilla-war-we-win-1568421
KIEV, Ukraine -- As violent protests by pro-Russian agitators in the East continued Monday and threatened to dismember Ukraine, the country readied for a possible war with Russia. But not an all-out war: a guerrilla war. And their commanders say they're confident they would win it.http://www.ibtimes.com/ukrainian-soldiers-russia-if-we-fight-guerrilla-war-we-win-1568421Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:21:07 -0400Ukraine Is Ready For The Tough Love Of The International Monetary Fundhttp://www.ibtimes.com/ukraine-ready-tough-love-international-monetary-fund-1564713
ODESSA, Ukraine -- Jaded by decades of mismanagement and corruption, Ukrainians greeted the announcement of the International Monetary Fund’s assistance package of up to $18 billion with the cautious expectation that it will get the country on the road to recovery. Like the often-disappointed relatives of a gravely ill patient, Ukrainians are placing their hopes on a painful treatment that promises a cure, even if it may mean the end of subsidies they have long relied on for basics such as heating.http://www.ibtimes.com/ukraine-ready-tough-love-international-monetary-fund-1564713Sat, 29 Mar 2014 09:53:31 -0400Ukraine Road Trip: From Kiev to Crimea, The Heart And Soul Of A Nation On The Brink Of Warhttp://www.ibtimes.com/ukraine-road-trip-kiev-crimea-heart-soul-nation-brink-war-1561999
KIEV — This is a city of late awakenings, where Lenin’s statue was only recently toppled, more than two decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, and where shops rarely open before 10 a.m.
On Red Army Street – a name that itself indicates a kind of historical lassitude, Viktoria Konyome, manager of the international fashion house Escada’s local branch, says that despite the remarkable vigor of the Maidan uprising, life – and for her, business -- is slower than ever.
“People are saving money for bread,” she says, her anxious eyes belying the calm of her voice.http://www.ibtimes.com/ukraine-road-trip-kiev-crimea-heart-soul-nation-brink-war-1561999Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:16:26 -0400Ukraine Crisis Could Spark Third World War, Former Communist Party Leader And President Kravchuk Warnshttp://www.ibtimes.com/ukraine-crisis-could-spark-third-world-war-former-communist-party-leader-president-kravchuk-warns
This article was corrected on March 14.
KIEV — It could be seen as saber rattling, fear-mongering or an astute prediction by a man with intimate knowledge of Ukrainian-Russian history, but Leonid Kravchuk is adamant that Russian President Vladimir Putin has strayed into potentially cataclysmic territory, and that the current showdown in Crimea could escalate into a world war.http://www.ibtimes.com/ukraine-crisis-could-spark-third-world-war-former-communist-party-leader-president-kravchuk-warnsThu, 13 Mar 2014 11:52:48 -0400Preventing Economic Disaster In Ukraine: Frenzied Measures To Address Old, Suddenly Crucial Problemshttp://www.ibtimes.com/preventing-economic-disaster-ukraine-frenzied-measures-address-old-suddenly-crucial-problems-1560271
KIEV, Ukraine -- Pavlo Sheremeta, the country's newly appointed economy minister, projects an eerie calm, like a doctor who knows he is at risk of losing his patient. “We need to do this very fast,” Sheremeta told a crowd gathered to hear his pronouncements during a break in his frenetic schedule this week. “The faster we do this, the lesser the pain ahead.”http://www.ibtimes.com/preventing-economic-disaster-ukraine-frenzied-measures-address-old-suddenly-crucial-problems-1560271Sat, 08 Mar 2014 16:23:52 -0500Welcome to the Embassy of Satan! As Iran's Revolution Turns 35, Former U.S. Embassy In Tehran Remains Popular Rallying Point -- And Tourist Site http://www.ibtimes.com/welcome-embassy-satan-irans-revolution-turns-35-former-us-embassy-tehran-remains-popular-rallying
TEHRAN — In black chadors that cover them from head to toe, the women shuffle forth like a procession of nuns, occasionally whispering a few words and furtively taking snapshots with the reverence due a sacred place.http://www.ibtimes.com/welcome-embassy-satan-irans-revolution-turns-35-former-us-embassy-tehran-remains-popular-rallyingTue, 04 Mar 2014 17:20:05 -0500Ukrainian Oligarchs Stay Above The Fray And Let The Crisis Play Outhttp://www.ibtimes.com/ukrainian-oligarchs-stay-above-fray-let-crisis-play-out-1558121
Over the past two weeks, the world has been transfixed by the drama of the uprising in Ukraine, from the medieval energy of bloody street battles in Kiev to the threat of a return to Cold War hostilities. But few of us understand the long-held grievances of the country’s citizens that fueled the protests, aside from knowing that they were angry that the country’s autocratic leader wanted to tie its economy closer to Russia than to Europe.http://www.ibtimes.com/ukrainian-oligarchs-stay-above-fray-let-crisis-play-out-1558121Wed, 26 Feb 2014 17:26:15 -0500The Invisible Land Of Kurdistan: Iraq Oil, Turkish EU Membership, Could Lead To Official Recognitionhttp://www.ibtimes.com/invisible-land-kurdistan-iraq-oil-turkish-eu-membership-could-lead-official-recognition-1534936
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey -- The sound of Turkish military jets taking off to unknown destinations no longer disturbs the sleep of Abdullah Demirbaş. Four years ago, at the age of 16, his son joined the PKK, the acronym of the Kurdish Workers’ Party, a guerrilla group that has been fighting against the Turkish state since the late 1970s. For decades, the planes were headed to target PKK positions in the mountains.http://www.ibtimes.com/invisible-land-kurdistan-iraq-oil-turkish-eu-membership-could-lead-official-recognition-1534936Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:46:50 -0500Why The Last Two Speakers Of Obscure Mexican Language Known As Ayapaneco Don't Talk To Each Otherhttp://www.ibtimes.com/why-last-two-speakers-obscure-mexican-language-known-ayapaneco-dont-talk-each-other-1505038
AYAPA, Mexico -- Don Manuel and Don Chilo, the last fluent speakers of Ayapaneco – a native Mexican language – are not on speaking terms. For them, love lost between neighbors has proved a more formidable communication barrier than obscure linguistics. Don Manuel says his neighbor is a bitter man; Don Chilo hints, with a wink, that Manuel resents sharing the limelight.http://www.ibtimes.com/why-last-two-speakers-obscure-mexican-language-known-ayapaneco-dont-talk-each-other-1505038Fri, 13 Dec 2013 14:58:18 -0500Twenty Years After The Zapatista Revolution Began, Subcomandante Marcos Is More Irrelevant Than Everhttp://www.ibtimes.com/twenty-years-after-zapatista-revolution-began-subcomandante-marcos-more-irrelevant-ever-1464806
OVENTIK, Mexico -- On a recent visit to the Society of the Americas in New York, Mexican writer and journalist Elena Poniatowska was asked about the Zapatista Revolution. She evoked her enthusiasm in the early days, when she visited its leader, the elusive Subcomandante Marcos, who had sent his driver to pick her up and take her for an interview in the Lacandon Jungle, where the guerrillas were hiding.http://www.ibtimes.com/twenty-years-after-zapatista-revolution-began-subcomandante-marcos-more-irrelevant-ever-1464806Fri, 15 Nov 2013 10:44:32 -0500The Gods of Chiapas: Mexican Muslims In The Shadow Of Zapatistashttp://www.ibtimes.com/gods-chiapas-mexican-muslims-shadow-zapatistas-1407812
SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico – “We used to have the god of rain, the god of sun – lots of gods, until the Spaniards came and they imposed their god and blond saints on us,” said Manuel, with the bitterness of a man who feels shortchanged of his divinities.http://www.ibtimes.com/gods-chiapas-mexican-muslims-shadow-zapatistas-1407812Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:00:15 -0400'Without Our Land We Are Not A People': Chile's Indigenous Mapuche Natives Fight A Forgotten, 500-Year War For Self-Determinationhttp://www.ibtimes.com/without-our-land-we-are-not-people-chiles-indigenous-mapuche-natives-fight-forgotten-500-year-war
TEMUCO, Chile -- Temuco is a city of people who move slowly and drive fast, where houses are low and wild roses bloom to buxom beauty on sidewalks and front yards. In this country at the end of the world, wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean, it’s also the unlikely stage of the 500-year war the Mapuche natives have been waging, first against the Spanish colonial armies and now the Chilean state.http://www.ibtimes.com/without-our-land-we-are-not-people-chiles-indigenous-mapuche-natives-fight-forgotten-500-year-warSat, 06 Apr 2013 08:54:11 -0400